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Opening Lines
A Member Challenge using the Expert Editing rules.

Description
Title your entry with the opening line from any work of fiction.

Submission Dates:
  Jan 30 2015 - Feb 5 2015

Voting Dates:
  Feb 6 2015 - Feb 12 2015

Submissions: 53
Disqualifications: 0
Votes: 3,692
Comments: 218

Average Score: 5.81392
Highest Score: 6.9722
Median Score: 5.8098
Lowest Score: 4.75
Results for Opening Lines:
Challenge Results for Opening Lines
'I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.'
by lei_73

1st place with an
average vote of 6.9722

Views: 2280 (170 during voting)
Votes: 72
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Average Vote (Participants): 6.815
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 7.067
As Gregor Samsa awoke ... he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
by mefnj

2nd place with an
average vote of 6.7887

Views: 2986 (200 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Average Vote (Participants): 6.889
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.727
The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living - ("Eldest"... Christopher Paolini)
by Judi

3rd place with an
average vote of 6.7606

Views: 2313 (208 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.704
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.796
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
by grahamgator

4th place with an
average vote of 6.7536

Views: 3503 (155 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.400
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.955
"I have never begun a novel with more misgiving." - —W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (1944)
by Lydia

5th place with an
average vote of 6.5493

Views: 2279 (161 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.148
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.796
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth
by Alex_Petrini

6th place with an
average vote of 6.5352

Views: 1031 (169 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.036
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.861
Will you just watch the hair? You know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. (Sat Night Fev
by P-A-U-L

7th place with an
average vote of 6.4507

Views: 1034 (154 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.963
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.750
'Now I will try to keep awake.' - The Beak Doctor by Eric Basso
by rooum

8th place with an
average vote of 6.4143

Views: 931 (149 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.778
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.186
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
by Ivory

9th place with an
average vote of 6.3768

Views: 776 (180 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.080
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.546
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. — Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
by nam

10th place with an
average vote of 6.3000

Views: 715 (138 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.808
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.591
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God - The Name of The Rose, Umberto Eco
by Mond

11th place with an
average vote of 6.2857

Views: 542 (167 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.731
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.614
Once upon a time..(a piece of wood)
by Sisto

12th place with an
average vote of 6.2817

Views: 543 (162 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.852
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.546
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall."
by tvsometime

13th place with an
average vote of 6.1690

Views: 659 (145 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.037
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.250
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
by wildiris

14th place with an
average vote of 6.1571

Views: 545 (139 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.667
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.465
Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person
by vawendy

15th place with an
average vote of 6.1515

Views: 614 (182 during voting)
Votes: 66
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.875
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.310
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard...
by insteps

16th place with an
average vote of 6.1111

Views: 575 (147 during voting)
Votes: 72
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.074
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.133
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. - "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
by Alain

17th place with an
average vote of 6.0857

Views: 505 (149 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.808
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.250
"It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times"
by illini75

18th place with an
average vote of 6.0725

Views: 590 (148 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.962
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.140
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, .....
by PaulFrocchi

19th place with an
average vote of 6.0714

Views: 461 (151 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.259
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.954
It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
by giantmike

20th place with an
average vote of 6.0429

Views: 460 (152 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.640
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.267
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive - recording, not thinking.
by MargaretNet

21st place with an
average vote of 6.0417

Views: 588 (156 during voting)
Votes: 72
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.111
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.000
A screaming comes across the sky - Gravity's Rainbow
by Neat

22nd place with an
average vote of 6.0286

Views: 555 (149 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.846
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.136
"Hope" is the thing with feathers~
by KMcC

23rd place with an
average vote of 5.9710

Views: 384 (137 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.680
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.136
This isa tale ofa meeting of two lonesome skinny fairly old white men ona planet whichwas dying fast
by dahkota

24th place with an
average vote of 5.9565

Views: 299 (142 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.630
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.167
If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
by markwiley

25th place with an
average vote of 5.8571

Views: 540 (142 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.423
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.114
It was a pleasure to burn. — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
by GeorgesBogaert

26th place with an
average vote of 5.8451

Views: 465 (171 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.615
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.978
Ground Control to Major Tom
by damjanev

27th place with an
average vote of 5.8286

Views: 289 (144 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.519
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.023
Many years later...remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
by Bear_Music

28th place with an
average vote of 5.7910

Views: 428 (149 during voting)
Votes: 67
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.458
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.977
Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.
by mrbig65

29th place with an
average vote of 5.7887

Views: 302 (143 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.308
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.067
Where's Papa going with that ax?
by LevT

30th place with an
average vote of 5.7571

Views: 586 (153 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.769
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.750
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person
by PennyStreet

31st place with an
average vote of 5.7500

Views: 408 (140 during voting)
Votes: 68
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.640
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.814
It was supposed to be like that: art for art's sake.......supposed to.
by herfotoman

32nd place with an
average vote of 5.7101

Views: 553 (145 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.593
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.786
In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
by timfythetoo

33rd place with an
average vote of 5.7042

Views: 484 (145 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.259
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.977
"A screaming comes across the sky." -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
by MaryO

34th place with an
average vote of 5.6364

Views: 285 (163 during voting)
Votes: 66
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.280
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.854
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
by MadMan2k

35th place with an
average vote of 5.6286

Views: 406 (150 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.654
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.614
For almost a year now, he has been taking photographs of abandoned things.
by tnun

36th place with an
average vote of 5.5857

Views: 387 (140 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.539
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.614
"It Was Love At First Sight", Joseph Heller, Catch-22
by Drake

37th place with an
average vote of 5.5362

Views: 545 (152 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.148
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.786
Don't look for dignity in public bathrooms -------------- (Big Machine by Victor LaValle)
by primabarbara

38th place with an
average vote of 5.5072

Views: 1134 (164 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.370
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.595
"I am a camera with it's shutter open, quite passive recording, not thinking." Goodbye to Berlin" (
by drake217

39th place with an
average vote of 5.4783

Views: 430 (156 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.148
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.691
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
by snaffles

40th place with an
average vote of 5.4429

Views: 677 (145 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.154
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.614
Lolita, light of my life,
by Tiny

41st place with an
average vote of 5.3768

Views: 389 (168 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.115
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.535
Now is the winter of our discontent...
by skewsme

42nd place with an
average vote of 5.3571

Views: 371 (135 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.154
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.477
elmer gantry was drunk
by NiallOTuama

43rd place with an
average vote of 5.3239

Views: 294 (146 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.714
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.070
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
by posthumous

44th place with an
average vote of 5.3188

Views: 444 (143 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.519
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.191
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.
by GeneralE

45th place with an
average vote of 5.1857

Views: 401 (140 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.926
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.349
Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who'd disappeared.
by tegarahadinata

46th place with an
average vote of 5.1029

Views: 473 (141 during voting)
Votes: 68
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.846
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.262
It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
by hajeka

47th place with an
average vote of 5.0571

Views: 554 (144 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.556
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.372
Jane Eyre “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
by jgirl57

48th place with an
average vote of 4.9429

Views: 975 (141 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.741
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.070
Holy men tell us life is a mystery
by jmritz

49th place with an
average vote of 4.8676

Views: 416 (146 during voting)
Votes: 68
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.192
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.667
The Winter Path
by jere2201

50th place with an
average vote of 4.8551

Views: 324 (140 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.539
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.047
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
by Yo_Spiff

51st place with an
average vote of 4.7910

Views: 384 (139 during voting)
Votes: 67
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.654
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.878
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
by hahn23

52nd place with an
average vote of 4.7826

Views: 356 (152 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.500
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.954
PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SOME MORE
by leontp

53rd place with an
average vote of 4.7500

Views: 338 (143 during voting)
Votes: 68
 Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.539
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.881


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